Finally the military took action, they came in during the night,
apprehending both me and Amy. We were taken to a room with a few
lampshades, with a general standing before us, grim faced as usual, even
with the glasses over his eyes.
"So you're the fox who survived BERSERKER?" He asked wanting with a grudging smile.
"What's it to you." He spat back not liking the abduction.
"We need your help, we need you to go inside and destroy it. That weapon is Pandora's Box and should never have been opened." The General claimed looking away.
"How many did you send down to try to prevent it." Tails asked knowing it would be many.
"Many, we tried to send down those who had disorders, mostly blind or deaf. They still failed, going insane and literally killing themselves right near the center. We covered it up best as we could, but we feel sorrow for it all. We send even mentally challenged people down to do a suicide job, but none even succeeded in making it to the core." The General stated regretfully.
"Like it matters, retards are taking up enough space on the planet, better to just let them die then live their meaningless existence." Tails cruelly remarked.
"Tails, how can you be so cold?" Amy said upset at his comment.
"We need you to help; BERSEKER must be destroyed at all cost. You're the only one who can help us Tails." The General replied as she glanced still emotionless to the fox.
"Tails suffered enough when he went there, he doesn't need more problems again." Amy yelled clenching her fists.
"Has he... has he overcome the grief. I feel all you have done is distance him from it. He still seems brought down by it. His eyes show the scars of pain that swell within his heart. It haunts him time to time never wanting to release its grip from your mind." The General stated with a stern voice.
Amy couldn't reply one look at the fox and all of what the General said was true. The pain still could be seen within the Kitsunes eyes, he still was filled with fear from all that had occurred. His head glanced to the ground with narrowed eyes, feeling more stricken by the words then anything.
"Tails?"
"He's right... I am still haunted by it." Tails admitted looking to Amy. "I tried to forget, but I can't. I lived only for you Amy and only to keep you happy. I have to face it Amy, I gotta go back and face the nightmare that still revives itself into my head. It's my fate to reface the nightmare and to fulfill the duty for the Freedom Fighters who died on that day. I know the device used, I just need parts to create it." He mentioned looking up with determination to the General.
"I think that is not what is needed. Tails, you may not like what were about to do, but we need to see if there is something within you." The General said, as two guards grabbed the kitsune and dragged him off to a dark room, throwing him inside.
"Tails!" Amy cried out, but was held back by two other guards, restraining her from following.
"What the hells the big idea... Let me go you bastards!" He yelled pounding against the door.
"We can't do that Tails, please understand we must find out just what effects the song we recorded will have on you." The General stated as he pressed a button, reading all signs of activity in the fox.
"Bastards... using me like a guinea pig I see." Tails yelled banging against the door.
Slowly came the song, the song that Tails only cringed as he heard the notes and the rhythm to it. It was the song that he heard in that area eight years ago. Tails covered his ears, not wanting to hear it, he knew what it did in that place so long ago, now it returned haunting him with images flashing of the murders, the memories that he only wished to forget.
"NO... NO... I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER IT..." The images flashed through his head, the blood, the murder, the insanity, all the tragic events that befell the freedom fighters on that day.
The military watched, recording every reading. A rapid deep beeping easily warned of unstable readings, something was already dwelling around Tails, an eerie aura of a golden shine, that seemed to be forming around, as he held his head, angrily.
"What the hell's going on!?" The General demanded.
"I'm not sure... all the others who we tested never had this reaction." The Scientist mentioned as he clicked through many radar readings, easily fascinated but panicking at the same time.
Tails though already was falling to his knee's, unknowingly the song triggered something, but whatever it was, it was rudely awakened and now caused sheer pain throughout the body.
"Shut the song off!?" The General demanded as he Scientist did so.
Even with it off, the aura surrounding tails did not fade, it remained around his body. He fell down face flat to the floor, eyes closed but the aura of golden light still illuminated around him.
"What... where am I?" Tails asked, but knew it as he glanced more around the area of metallic structuring.
"No!... NOOOO..." Tails clenched his hand to a fist, but noticed something, he looked seeing himself the way he was years back.
He changed since then, he grew taller since then, his fur still just as bushy, but not well groomed. At least not as good as it was when he was younger. He also had more build in muscles since that day. He knew he was more handsome when older, but he still felt he looked better when he was young. Perhaps it was the charming smile he held, his innocent blue eyes, and his ever so cheerful tone.
Tails though didn't ponder to long on this; he noticed something far more dangerous, the overlander, the blond haired girl he saw, was right in front. Slowly she moved forth, merging within his body, but Tails noticed something else. Serpents... multi colored serpents with scaled bodies, but a face of a demon, teeth that were like piranhas, eyes a glowing ember of fire. They merged within his crew, the men going insane, while his younger self watched in horror.
Yet, all seemed to happen more slower, time seemed to be shifted at that moment. He glanced around, taking a step forward. All seemed to be real, yet he was a ghost, watching all. It was only an image cast by an eye that one never could harness. Tails walked onward, as he ran through the tunnel, he saw more serpents merging with his friends, Antoine and Bunnie, both moving to one another and eventually Bunnie killed her lover, thrusting one hand into his chest, ripping his heart out and clenching it. She went down as someone shot her in the head with a pistol.
"Those serpents... what the hell are they?" Tails asked himself, shaking his head at the incident.
Tails walked onward finding more and more of the same thing, all going insane once the serpents went inside the bodies of his partners. All then went insane, and mindlessly slaughtered all who were around. It was a nightmare coming true.
Tails finally saw something ahead, something more structured, a core perhaps, the main area where the main controls were. Running to the area, he found it, the main core, wires connected to several outputs and inputs, and the center of it all, a large sphere floating in the air. Yet Tails noticed something, a tear that seemed to be a part of his reality. Behind it a flickering of yellow light, and floating rocks. Limbo as some would call it. Serpents were flying out, and around, into the world.
"So the serpents are from another dimension." Tails said staring at it.
"Correct Miles "Tails" Prower."
Tails turned to find the golden haired maiden. She was just as she appeared that very day, the same dress, the same face, and the same eyes.
"What is all this... what are those serpents?" Tails asked, taking a deep breath.
"Consciousness... they are the carnation of what you consider evil, living off of pain, sadness, anger, and all that is nothing but negative, as you put it." The girl said with a warm tone of voice.
"So there beings of evil?" Tails asked still confused.
"Once they were creatures like you, but like every civilization, they turned to war, and the effect of it was a wasteland you saw through the rift. Alas, they were more powerful when their consciousness became what you refer to as a spirit. They found a way to rip open a threat of their own world and cross into other worlds. They dwelled on hatred and vengeance, the loss of their own world was more then they could stand. Taking other dimensions, they began their terror, using mortals for their own vent of anger, they slaughtered one another. Yet I sealed them off, when they came to my world. I sealed each one back in and placed a more larger and heavily created barrier around the threads to prevent them from ever being torn open again. Yet the mad scientist's invention that was used only to create beta waves so intense that anyone that met with them would be driven mad."
Tails nodded, all seemed clear, yet still, how did it all create the rift.
"His invention though also caused a fluctuation in the barrier I had, the waves that began from the core caused a collapse in my magic and thus tore a hole in the within the threads." She mentioned.
"Is there a way to stop it?" Tails asked very worried of all this.
"The serpents cannot leave the area, that rift gives off the pure elements essential to their survival. It only gives enough of these elements to last them in a small space such as this area. However, it only can increase by a small amount. At most, it is around a yard per year."
"So there's nothing to worry about, right?" Tails said feeling hope.
"No Tails... you are the only one who can fulfill this task. Your know it is something you must confront." She mentioned as Tails looked to the ground.
Tails now understood why he suffered so much, he regretted what he did in the past, and he let it overcome him. He knew what had to be done.
"I shall... but please, guide me, I don't know how I survived this before... if you were the reason, I will need your help once more." He begged as he locked his gaze onto hers.
"I shall..." She said fading away.
***
"Tails?... Tails!!" Amy yelled as the fox slowly opened his eyes glancing up at the General and at Amy.
Tails groaned as he sat up, rubbing his head, glancing around the area.
"Tails, what happened, do you have any idea what you just did?" The General demanded as Tails only shook his head.
"Tails... are you sure you're okay?" Amy asked as she looked at him with concerned eyes.
"I know what I must do Amy... I must face the past I ran from... that nightmare I will once more step into." He stated standing to his feet.
"Tails no..." She begged already getting tear-eyed.
"Amy I must. All that I've done is distance myself from that place. It is time I went back, it is time I refaced that past... I must confront it and this time, I will complete the mission. Then maybe things will return to normal." He said glancing to the smiling General.
"How many hundred hours you need to prepare?" The General asked with his hands behind his back.
"Give me twenty-four hundred hours." Tails replied with a thumb up.
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Next chapter
Darkness... we fear it as a child because we don't what awaits in it. Even as we grow, we still fear it at sometimes. Stepping into the one I so long have avoided, the nightmare once more unsheathes its gruesome blade, and thrusts into my heart to spread the fear all throughout my body.
Next chapter: Fear From Within.
Authors Notes: It has been a while, but I have reasons. Anyway, I plan to still follow my policy, mostly not to write what I call 'quality' fics. I write to express my idea's, not for literary experience, so to those who bitch and demand revisions, your complaints are in vain, cause even if I do, what will I get from doing all that, just a few reviews. Woopi, I got reviews... seriously not amused. So to those who want to demand or suggest it, you're wasting time.
"So you're the fox who survived BERSERKER?" He asked wanting with a grudging smile.
"What's it to you." He spat back not liking the abduction.
"We need your help, we need you to go inside and destroy it. That weapon is Pandora's Box and should never have been opened." The General claimed looking away.
"How many did you send down to try to prevent it." Tails asked knowing it would be many.
"Many, we tried to send down those who had disorders, mostly blind or deaf. They still failed, going insane and literally killing themselves right near the center. We covered it up best as we could, but we feel sorrow for it all. We send even mentally challenged people down to do a suicide job, but none even succeeded in making it to the core." The General stated regretfully.
"Like it matters, retards are taking up enough space on the planet, better to just let them die then live their meaningless existence." Tails cruelly remarked.
"Tails, how can you be so cold?" Amy said upset at his comment.
"We need you to help; BERSEKER must be destroyed at all cost. You're the only one who can help us Tails." The General replied as she glanced still emotionless to the fox.
"Tails suffered enough when he went there, he doesn't need more problems again." Amy yelled clenching her fists.
"Has he... has he overcome the grief. I feel all you have done is distance him from it. He still seems brought down by it. His eyes show the scars of pain that swell within his heart. It haunts him time to time never wanting to release its grip from your mind." The General stated with a stern voice.
Amy couldn't reply one look at the fox and all of what the General said was true. The pain still could be seen within the Kitsunes eyes, he still was filled with fear from all that had occurred. His head glanced to the ground with narrowed eyes, feeling more stricken by the words then anything.
"Tails?"
"He's right... I am still haunted by it." Tails admitted looking to Amy. "I tried to forget, but I can't. I lived only for you Amy and only to keep you happy. I have to face it Amy, I gotta go back and face the nightmare that still revives itself into my head. It's my fate to reface the nightmare and to fulfill the duty for the Freedom Fighters who died on that day. I know the device used, I just need parts to create it." He mentioned looking up with determination to the General.
"I think that is not what is needed. Tails, you may not like what were about to do, but we need to see if there is something within you." The General said, as two guards grabbed the kitsune and dragged him off to a dark room, throwing him inside.
"Tails!" Amy cried out, but was held back by two other guards, restraining her from following.
"What the hells the big idea... Let me go you bastards!" He yelled pounding against the door.
"We can't do that Tails, please understand we must find out just what effects the song we recorded will have on you." The General stated as he pressed a button, reading all signs of activity in the fox.
"Bastards... using me like a guinea pig I see." Tails yelled banging against the door.
Slowly came the song, the song that Tails only cringed as he heard the notes and the rhythm to it. It was the song that he heard in that area eight years ago. Tails covered his ears, not wanting to hear it, he knew what it did in that place so long ago, now it returned haunting him with images flashing of the murders, the memories that he only wished to forget.
"NO... NO... I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER IT..." The images flashed through his head, the blood, the murder, the insanity, all the tragic events that befell the freedom fighters on that day.
The military watched, recording every reading. A rapid deep beeping easily warned of unstable readings, something was already dwelling around Tails, an eerie aura of a golden shine, that seemed to be forming around, as he held his head, angrily.
"What the hell's going on!?" The General demanded.
"I'm not sure... all the others who we tested never had this reaction." The Scientist mentioned as he clicked through many radar readings, easily fascinated but panicking at the same time.
Tails though already was falling to his knee's, unknowingly the song triggered something, but whatever it was, it was rudely awakened and now caused sheer pain throughout the body.
"Shut the song off!?" The General demanded as he Scientist did so.
Even with it off, the aura surrounding tails did not fade, it remained around his body. He fell down face flat to the floor, eyes closed but the aura of golden light still illuminated around him.
"What... where am I?" Tails asked, but knew it as he glanced more around the area of metallic structuring.
"No!... NOOOO..." Tails clenched his hand to a fist, but noticed something, he looked seeing himself the way he was years back.
He changed since then, he grew taller since then, his fur still just as bushy, but not well groomed. At least not as good as it was when he was younger. He also had more build in muscles since that day. He knew he was more handsome when older, but he still felt he looked better when he was young. Perhaps it was the charming smile he held, his innocent blue eyes, and his ever so cheerful tone.
Tails though didn't ponder to long on this; he noticed something far more dangerous, the overlander, the blond haired girl he saw, was right in front. Slowly she moved forth, merging within his body, but Tails noticed something else. Serpents... multi colored serpents with scaled bodies, but a face of a demon, teeth that were like piranhas, eyes a glowing ember of fire. They merged within his crew, the men going insane, while his younger self watched in horror.
Yet, all seemed to happen more slower, time seemed to be shifted at that moment. He glanced around, taking a step forward. All seemed to be real, yet he was a ghost, watching all. It was only an image cast by an eye that one never could harness. Tails walked onward, as he ran through the tunnel, he saw more serpents merging with his friends, Antoine and Bunnie, both moving to one another and eventually Bunnie killed her lover, thrusting one hand into his chest, ripping his heart out and clenching it. She went down as someone shot her in the head with a pistol.
"Those serpents... what the hell are they?" Tails asked himself, shaking his head at the incident.
Tails walked onward finding more and more of the same thing, all going insane once the serpents went inside the bodies of his partners. All then went insane, and mindlessly slaughtered all who were around. It was a nightmare coming true.
Tails finally saw something ahead, something more structured, a core perhaps, the main area where the main controls were. Running to the area, he found it, the main core, wires connected to several outputs and inputs, and the center of it all, a large sphere floating in the air. Yet Tails noticed something, a tear that seemed to be a part of his reality. Behind it a flickering of yellow light, and floating rocks. Limbo as some would call it. Serpents were flying out, and around, into the world.
"So the serpents are from another dimension." Tails said staring at it.
"Correct Miles "Tails" Prower."
Tails turned to find the golden haired maiden. She was just as she appeared that very day, the same dress, the same face, and the same eyes.
"What is all this... what are those serpents?" Tails asked, taking a deep breath.
"Consciousness... they are the carnation of what you consider evil, living off of pain, sadness, anger, and all that is nothing but negative, as you put it." The girl said with a warm tone of voice.
"So there beings of evil?" Tails asked still confused.
"Once they were creatures like you, but like every civilization, they turned to war, and the effect of it was a wasteland you saw through the rift. Alas, they were more powerful when their consciousness became what you refer to as a spirit. They found a way to rip open a threat of their own world and cross into other worlds. They dwelled on hatred and vengeance, the loss of their own world was more then they could stand. Taking other dimensions, they began their terror, using mortals for their own vent of anger, they slaughtered one another. Yet I sealed them off, when they came to my world. I sealed each one back in and placed a more larger and heavily created barrier around the threads to prevent them from ever being torn open again. Yet the mad scientist's invention that was used only to create beta waves so intense that anyone that met with them would be driven mad."
Tails nodded, all seemed clear, yet still, how did it all create the rift.
"His invention though also caused a fluctuation in the barrier I had, the waves that began from the core caused a collapse in my magic and thus tore a hole in the within the threads." She mentioned.
"Is there a way to stop it?" Tails asked very worried of all this.
"The serpents cannot leave the area, that rift gives off the pure elements essential to their survival. It only gives enough of these elements to last them in a small space such as this area. However, it only can increase by a small amount. At most, it is around a yard per year."
"So there's nothing to worry about, right?" Tails said feeling hope.
"No Tails... you are the only one who can fulfill this task. Your know it is something you must confront." She mentioned as Tails looked to the ground.
Tails now understood why he suffered so much, he regretted what he did in the past, and he let it overcome him. He knew what had to be done.
"I shall... but please, guide me, I don't know how I survived this before... if you were the reason, I will need your help once more." He begged as he locked his gaze onto hers.
"I shall..." She said fading away.
***
"Tails?... Tails!!" Amy yelled as the fox slowly opened his eyes glancing up at the General and at Amy.
Tails groaned as he sat up, rubbing his head, glancing around the area.
"Tails, what happened, do you have any idea what you just did?" The General demanded as Tails only shook his head.
"Tails... are you sure you're okay?" Amy asked as she looked at him with concerned eyes.
"I know what I must do Amy... I must face the past I ran from... that nightmare I will once more step into." He stated standing to his feet.
"Tails no..." She begged already getting tear-eyed.
"Amy I must. All that I've done is distance myself from that place. It is time I went back, it is time I refaced that past... I must confront it and this time, I will complete the mission. Then maybe things will return to normal." He said glancing to the smiling General.
"How many hundred hours you need to prepare?" The General asked with his hands behind his back.
"Give me twenty-four hundred hours." Tails replied with a thumb up.
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Next chapter
Darkness... we fear it as a child because we don't what awaits in it. Even as we grow, we still fear it at sometimes. Stepping into the one I so long have avoided, the nightmare once more unsheathes its gruesome blade, and thrusts into my heart to spread the fear all throughout my body.
Next chapter: Fear From Within.
Authors Notes: It has been a while, but I have reasons. Anyway, I plan to still follow my policy, mostly not to write what I call 'quality' fics. I write to express my idea's, not for literary experience, so to those who bitch and demand revisions, your complaints are in vain, cause even if I do, what will I get from doing all that, just a few reviews. Woopi, I got reviews... seriously not amused. So to those who want to demand or suggest it, you're wasting time.